Submitted by Elaine Magliaro, Guest Blogger
The Mississippi Division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans has come up with an idea for celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Civil War—known to some as the “War between the States.” The veterans group has proposed that the state of
Mississippi issue a series of specialty license plates commemorating the war. These specialty plates, planned for the years 2011 through 2015, would each have a different design.
What has some people upset is the specialty license plate slated for the year 2014, which would honor General Nathan Bedford Forrest. Forrest, a native of Tennessee, is considered by some to have been a military genius. Others feel differently about Forrest who is “reviled” by some for allegedly having lead a massacre of Black Union troops at Fort Pillow in his home state in 1864. It should be noted that Forrest also served as the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan.
According to ABC News, the NAACP is planning to send a letter to Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour requesting “that he publicly denounce the license plate and use his office to prevent it from being issued.” Derrick Jackson, president of the Mississippi state NAACP, said of Forrest: “He should be viewed in the same light that we view Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden. The state of Mississippi should deny any vanity tags which would highlight racial hatred in this state.”
Although many historians agree that Nathan Bedford Forrest distanced himself from the KKK later in his life, some believe “it was too little too late because the Klan had already turned violent before Forrest left.”
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Frank:
pay back is pay back, obviously ole grandpa got his ass kicked twice by white people.
BTW – you really don’t need to put “the reb” in your name. The false bravado & pretend manners say “Southern Fop” without you mentioning treason in defense of human slavery.
You exhibit the type of bravery that would allow you to beat a defenseless man seated at a desk with a cane & pretend you defended your honor.
frank,
“Either you are a very dumb liar or he was the stupidest buck private in the Mexican Army.”
You say that like they’re mutually exclusive.
So, Jeb, your ancestor was as stupid and ignorant as you? IF he fought with Santa Anna he would have known that the war in Texas was specifically because Mexico was outlawing slavery & the slave owners decided to break free so they could maintain human slaves.
Yet you want us to believe this man then sided with the asshole slave owners to get even with the US government – a government that had nothing to do with the Texas revolt?
Either you are a very dumb liar or he was the stupidest buck private in the Mexican Army.
If I said to your face what I’ve said here – and I would – you wouldn’t do a damn thing is what would happen.
As to “shame on me”?
That’s funny coming from racist CSA apologists.
Mr./Mrs. Buddha:
you sir/madam are an insensitive lout, uncouth and apparently devoid of any human decency or breeding for that matter. My lord sir/madam, Brent is not and never has been entangled in my skull. Shame on you for even suggesting something as offensive as skull humping.
By the way I am a Hispanic who had a great, great, great, great grandfather who fought for the south. He had served with Santa Anna and wanted retribution for the loss of Texas. He was 18 when he marched with Santa Anna and destroyed the Alamo. He fought with JEB Stuart which is how I got my name. All male children born first in our family since then have been named James Ewell Brown XXXXXXXX in honor of general Stuart.
So racism has no bearing in this, well maybe not true, I am not a big fan of white people. They have caused a good deal of suffering for people of color.
If you were to say that in person, to my face, I would thrash you like the dog you apparently are. You need a good spanking or a caning depending upon gender.
You sir/madam are no gentleman/lady. We have a word for your type down here but decorum prevents my repeating words to that effect.
Good day.
AY
🙂
I don’t owe either of you rednecks a damn thing expect for the scorn you’ve earned with your revisionist retrograde racist ignorance.
If you don’t like that I’ve offended you? Don’t read it. A corollary to the right to free speech is the right to be offended. For example, I’m offended by historical revisionists (also known as liars) and racists who hide behind mock Southern pride and that fake Southern gentility nonsense that most people mistake for actual manners. If this is a problem for your delicate sensibilities? Too bad.
Let’s be crystal clear: This isn’t your site. Only one person can ask me to behave and when he has in the past, I have dutifully complied. “Got to go”? How about liars and racists have got to go? Hmmm? How about that? And if making mincemeat of your lies and offending you isn’t enough? I’m content with just the sport of making fun of you neanderthals.
So why don’t you pull Brent off you head and you two go cry in your beer over it.
This is one symbiotic thread…..
“…they immediatly go into attack defense mode!!!”
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WHAT? “defense attack mode?” What is that? We have come to expect statements from you that are internally inconsistent, but this one is priceless. Really? “defense attack mode.?” I am going to have to remember this as a new baseline for high quality oxymora.
Mr. Buddha:
you need some manners sir/madam.
For the record Brent has never humped my skull. I will swear to that under oath.
I must say a stint at Miss Dubois’s finishing school would do you a world of good. She was very good at instilling manners in even the most recalcitrant child.
From what I can tell she would have you saying please, thank you, yes sir and yes mam pretty quickly.
That dirty language regarding skull humping has to go, this is a site dedicated to civility.
You owe both me and Brent an apology sir/madam for your churlish behavior. Your up bringing is showing.
poe
seriously, poe
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law
Jeb the Reb
1, May 21, 2011 at 6:41 pm
Brent Waller:
Do you hump your sister? I didnt think so.
When they bring out the race card, you know you won.
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wtf?
Oh yeah.
Calling racists “racists” is “the race card”.
Apparently I was wrong about Brent.
He hasn’t be humping his sister. He’s been humping you. I’d say in the skull judging by the brain damage you have, but there’s that whole lack of penetration/hitting a small target problem to overcome.
And Brent? My advice to you would be to lay off the meth and quit sniffing glue. And stay off of Jeb’s skull.
Bob,
I agree. But what is to be done until Bush is rightfully put on trial? Nothing changes for the better until that happens.
Buddha,
There’s also the problem of perpetuating the spin that ‘justice was done.’
It was nothing more than mob rule.
Thank you kindly Blouise.
jeb
that is there game on here from the start, they make outlandish statements when u point out facts, i really do find budda bud humerous, scriber a hipocrit who is very defensive an somewhat confused in his logic an reasoning. but jeb i never set out to win or lose, i set out to educate these liberal extremists. i set out to clear the name of general forrest from the lies an half truths posted by these hipocrits. after doing so i pointed out more of there hipocracy by calling me of all people a terrorist. after enlightning them to some simple facts about this page they immediatly go into attack defense mode!!! an i am laughing so hard over here that im worried the neighbors are gonna complain. roflmao!!!!
Brent Waller:
Do you hump your sister? I didnt think so.
When they bring out the race card, you know you won.
buddah bud, i could really care less what a crazy man who worships dolls has to think about me. the fires are hot where u are going an i will sleep well knowing that. my advise to you would be to repent an ask god forgivness for ur wickedness, an sins. before the gates of lucifer open to accept ur cold black heart.